Buffalo Gap

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The high hills of the Callahan Divide run for 26 miles just south of Abilene, and for at least centuries, buffalo herds migrated through a gap in this divide. Apache and Comanche followed them there, and so did White buffalo hunters by the 1870s. Cowboys traversed the gap, driving cattle along the Great Western Trail near where the village of Buffalo Gap sprang up in the mid-1800s.

Slip on your boots and experience the last 50 years of the Texas frontier at Buffalo Gap Historic Village. A dozen-plus restored structures and thousands of artifacts recreate life from 1875 to 1925. Check out the Indian arrowhead and frontier weapons collections in the 1879 Taylor County Courthouse and jail. Learn about early twentieth-century medicine from the recreated doctor’s office. Picture a school day in the two-room Cottonwood Flat School, resurrected from the Depression Era. Peruse the pioneer log cabin, railroad depot, blacksmith shop, bank and gas station, or learn history at one of Buffalo Gap’s many educational and living history events.

And if all that history works up an appetite, you're in luck! The world-renowned Perini Ranch Steakhouse is just a few miles away.

Mapped location of Buffalo Gap

Buffalo Gap

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